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Grockit - directions for making one from Nik Peachey

If you are considering using electronic portfolios with your students - here is a review of software available for a school. You might also want to consider LinguaFolio, and just plain wikis as other alternatives.

Gilly Salmon's 5-stage model of online learning

funny animated video about the move from analog to digital classrooms; points out that just having the equipment doesn't change the way people teach; you still need to think about new pedagogy

Upgrade to Flash Player 10 for improved playback performance. Upgrade Now or More Info. close 79,634 LikeAdd toShare Loading... Sign In or Sign Up now! Uploaded by PBS on Aug 16, 2011 For decades now, people have joined together online to communicate and collaborate around interesting imagery. In recent years, the pace and intensity of this activity has reached a fever pitch. With countless communities engaging in a constant exchange, building on each others' work, and producing a prodigious flow of material, we may be experiencing the early stages of a new type of artistic and cultural collaboration. In this episode of Off Book, we'll speak with a number of Internet experts and artists who'll give us an introductory look into this intriguing new world.

Resources to teach digitally are integrated all through the teacher preparation courses, and they have resources to try and show things with many different kinds of equipment.

From the article:  The new teachers site is part one of two big initiatives on the part of YouTube geared towards educators. In the next couple of weeks, a bigger announcement will be made about huge changes that will address many of the concerns teachers have had about using YouTube videos (you know what they are). Stay tuned for more news in two weeks.

EU multilingualism portal

There are many ideas in this article that would help a language teacher thinking about having online students do oral presentations.

The K-12 educators in this study engaged in true dialogue, where evidence of actual conversation occurred in Twitter over 61% of the time. Additionally, over 82% of the time, the educators in this study chose to follow other educators or content experts related to their field of teaching so they were able to create a personal learning network meaningful to their professional needs.

Are you familiar with all of these??  =)

You can use this to put your course online if your institution doesn't have a course management system that you are required to use. Includes some of the "collaborate" additions.

A webinar you might be interested in if thinking about using iPads.

Did you know that they archive the summaries for #langchat (Twitter hashtag)?   Here they are in a wiki.  So if you miss the chat session, you can read it all here later...

Thought you might be interested in watching what happens with this for K-12!

Some more encouragement for using sites like LiveMocha and Busuu - "Be imaginative, confident and let the conversations flow!"

Online classes and iPads are helping some students.